1984 - BA from the Oil Painting Department at Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts, Hangzhou, China
Lives and works in Hangzhou, China
Known as the "father of Chinese video art," Zhang Peili was part of the contemporary art scene in China since the 1980s.
According to UNESCO, Zhang Peili's "early works dealt with the nature of personal experience, irrational feelings and resistance to psychological and social pressures. In the years that followed he embarked on an international career with openly critical videos."
Eating1997
Three-channel video and sound installation
Last Words
2003
Video Stills
Three-channel video and sound installation
Last Words2003
Video Stills
Last Words is a 15-minute continuous loop of spliced footage from Chinese propaganda films of the 1950s and 1960s.
"One bit of a young fellow taking a gun to his head, grinning all the time, is particularly chilling. Zhang seems to imply that the death wish that characterized the world’s oldest civilization for so long, at the cost of 750,000,000 lives, still lies close beneath the skin, and that he, a man of 50, will not forget or let you forget." - Charlie Finch for artnet Magazine.
"One bit of a young fellow taking a gun to his head, grinning all the time, is particularly chilling. Zhang seems to imply that the death wish that characterized the world’s oldest civilization for so long, at the cost of 750,000,000 lives, still lies close beneath the skin, and that he, a man of 50, will not forget or let you forget." - Charlie Finch for artnet Magazine.
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